WEST GREENWICH – Ram Pond, visible through the trees just off the Coney Brook Loop Trail, is named for the ramming sound made by a mechanism that was used in the 1800s to pump water up a steep ...
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How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?

A hydraulic ram is a clever device invented over 200 years ago that can pump water uphill with no other external source of ...
Feb. 12—A pump station that's the workhorse of moving water uphill to mountainside homes in Waynesville is getting a $225,000 retrofit. The pump station is the first stop in a chain of six pumps that ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Water has flowed from Northern California's snow-capped peaks to the south's parched cities ever since the California Aqueduct was built in the 1960s. Now, amid one of the worst ...